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CALOST]^MMA luteum. 

 Yellow Calostemma. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. AmaryllidacejE. 

 CJL OSTEMMA. Botanical Register, vol. 5 . fol. 4 2 1 



C. luteum: foliis contemporaueis flaccidis ensiformibus viridibus scapi longi- 

 tudine, tubo perianthii limbo breviore, coronae dentibus interjectis bifidis 

 filamentis brevioribus, umbellis densis, pedicellis inarticulatis subse- 

 qualibus. 



C. luteum. Bot. Mag. t.2\(i\. Supra t. 421. 



Although a figure of this species has already been given 

 in an early volume of the present work, yet it seems desirable 

 to reproduce it, partly for the sake of showing more correctly 

 its exact structure, and partly because of its rarity. 



It, and all the species, of which five are now on record, 

 is an inhabitant of New Holland, whence bulbs are from time 

 to time imported. They differ not only in the colour of the 

 flowers, which are yellow, red, pink, and white, but in the 

 relative length of the pedicels, in the presence or absence of 

 an articulation in those parts, and in the form of the tooth- 

 ings found between the stamens. 



One of them at least, C. candidum, is said to be fragrant. 

 That now figured, which flowered in September, 1839, in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society, from bulbs collected upon 

 the plains of the Lachlan in April, 1836, by Major Sir 

 Thomas Mitchell, had a strong smell of mint. 



It is not quite so hardy as bulbs from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, being liable to be injured in a cold frame by the frost 

 and damp in winter ; and therefore the best plan of cultiva- 

 tion is either to plant it out in the border of a conservatory, 

 or to grow it in a pot in the greenhouse. It is by no means 

 difficult to make it grow freely, but there is considerable 

 difficulty in inducing it to flower. This can only be done by 



April, 1840. h 



